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Airy Nothings
Religion and the Flight from Time
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2013
Summary
Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press. The tenets and teachings, however nonsensical, of each and every “community of faith” may not be attacked. Secular academics who would never be caught in a synagogue, church, or mosque seldom fail to manifest politically correct reverence for the creeds, codes, and cults of the religious. Unfortunately, the central religious concept of the “sacred” proves, upon closer inspection, to be fictitious. The understandably popular “holy” times, places, deities, peoples, books, laws, and scenarios for the afterlife are fantasies projected into everyday experience by human beings trapped in time and unwilling to accept their own transiency and long-term insignificance. This book surveys the various traditional “fortresses” of the sacred and finds them all empty and indefensible.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6252-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6253-6
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
110
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Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Holy Time No access Pages 9 - 20
2 Holy Space No access Pages 21 - 32
3 Holy God No access Pages 33 - 44
4 Holy People No access Pages 45 - 54
5 Holy Hero Worship No access Pages 55 - 66
6 Holy Books No access Pages 67 - 80
7 Holy Laws No access Pages 81 - 92
8 Holy Afterlife No access Pages 93 - 100
Conclusion No access Pages 101 - 110
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